Access to the website of independent news agency Ferghana was blocked this week by telecommunications company Kyrgyztelecom in response to a formal request from the Kyrgyz state communications agency. In a resolution made public on 16 June last...
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs has been named in court for the first time as the Premier League footballer with a high-profile privacy injunction against the Sun. At a hearing at the high court today, Giggs agreed to lift the anonymity part of the...
The Paris and Cologne offices of a Turkish newspaper were attacked by supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) last week. Zaman newspaper says that a group of nearly 15 masked PKK supporters entered its Paris office on 15...
Authorities in the Siberian city of Barnaul have refused to sanction a dolls' protest rally, claiming toys are not equal to people and so cannot participate. Rights activists had planned to place 100 Kinder surprise toys, 100 Lego figures, 20...
Russia's head of Federal Migration has said that the decision to expel prominent French journalist and author Anne Nivat earlier this week was "groundlessly harsh", and that she will be allowed to return. Nivat was expelled from the country on 13...
Ekho Moskvy is Russia’s most popular talk radio station, with 900,000 listeners daily. Since its creation in 1990 it has delivered information as an independent media which, unlike Russian TV, isn't subject to censorship. This remained the case...
Marta Cooper looks at what we’ve learned from the UK’s investigation into the press
Any reduction in the scope of the Freedom of Information Act in limiting its costs or capping the number of requests will have an impact on Article 10 rights to freedom of expression, Index has said in a submission to a parliamentary committee
Human rights advocate and Presidential council for Human Rights expert Vladimir Osechkin has reported freedom of expression violations in penal colony №7 in Tver. Inmates and their relatives appealed to Oscechkin saying they had been seriously...
Prominent French journalist and author Anne Nivat was expelled from Russia yesterday (13 February) for alleged violation of her visa status. Nivat has said she believes the move to be politically motivated, with authorities expressing their...